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UPDATE MARCH 27 2006: Users can no longer create their own accounts. Please email me if you would likean account to add content here (Send it to bruce.timberlake at gmail dot com). I purged most of theexisting user accounts, so if you can't log in, just drop me a line with the username you used to useand I'll get you set up again.

I apologize for this -- I know it's not really "the wiki way" but there are just too many lusers out therewho insist on adding inappropriate content, and MediaWiki does not yet have the best controls for keepingpeople out, confirming their identities, etc. As soon as better spam controls can be put in place, I'llopen the thing right up again.

If you are adding new content:

please make sure you are formatting things properly, especially for the page titles/link names

The various product names have a space in them (e.g., RaQ 4, not RaQ4 or RAQ4)

Try to make the URLs as short as possible (extra text can be added outside the link)

Please "sign" your adds/changes. In MediaWiki you do this by inserting four tildes (~~~~)

Please try to use the section/subsection markup (== blah == for new section, === blah === for new subsection) and organize the content

Community Resources

The [Download] section is migrated. Find ROM images and other PKG files there.

In addition to PKGs etc., now in the Download section is the Qube 3 Sausalito Architecture guide. I scanned this from a printout of Chapter 17 of the Qube 3 Developers Guide which was being written while I was at Sun. Sadly, this manual was never finished or released by Sun before they shut the Cobalt product line down. But this chapter is the best explanation of Sausalito and its components that is available anyplace. There is even a step-by-step walkthrough of how to make changes to the UI, etc. This document should be applicable for the RaQ 550 as well. Get it [here] (1.4 MB). Sorry for the relatively poor copy; my scanner is not the best. But it beats trying to type the whole thing into a word processor! --Bruce 06:41, 28 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Cobalt-based operating system projects

Project BlueQuartz is the name of the activity to support porting and maintenance tasks voluntarily provided by Cobalt Users Group. The Cobalt Users Group has already released Qube 3-based BlueQuartz software through this web site. The Cobalt Users Group will continue to participate in the deployment of the all of Cobalt based software including the porting tasks to RaQ 550 based BlueQuartz system. RaQ 550 series has been discontinued and no development plan exists for a new product which inherits Cobalt DNA. However, the Cobalt DNA will survive, because Sun Microsystems has opened it.

The Ruby Project is a quick deployment tool, to enable very easy installation of the BlueQuartz hosting system on Linux RedHat 9, secure the underlying operating system and expand the BlueQuartz hosting system with standard modules such as openwebmail, webalizer, mailscanner, spamassassin and so on. (Discontinued)

This is the next replacement for your old Cobalt RaQ series servers. This software is designed to run on all newer server platforms. Fedora is the non-commercial version by RedHat, and RackStar is based off of the Open Source RaQ550 GUI. FREE download!

This is the next replacement for your old Cobalt RaQ series servers. This software is designed to run on all newer server platforms. CentOS is based off of RH Enterprise, and Blue Quartz is based off of the Open Source RaQ550 GUI. Now you can get this FREE CentOS + BlueQuartz ISO! Weeks worth of developement for you to enjoy!

RAQdevil is a FreeBSD-based web control panel application, developed by iXsystems and based upon the Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 software. Sun released the code for the RaQ under a BSD-style license in December of 2003 and the code was then ported to Fedora Linux by the BlueQuartz project.